What's done can't be undone.
At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want.
A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
He who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.
We thought that we had the answers, it was the questions we had wrong.
If you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always gotten.
Take care of the pieces well. The whole will take care of itself.
A proverb is much matter distilled into few words.
To me, being an intellectual doesn't mean knowing about intellectual issues; it means taking pleasure in them.
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems.
A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.
If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.
Great dreams of great dreamers are always transcended.
You laugh at me because I'm different, I laugh at you because you're all the same.
Be frank and explicit. That is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the minds of others.
All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
Stupidity is a talent for misconception.
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.
It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt.
The wise man should restrain his senses like the crane and accomplish his purpose with due knowledge of his place, time and ability.
